Thor: The God of Thunder Who Was More Important Than Odin and Had a Hammer With a Short Handle
In most popular treatments of Norse mythology, Odin is the chief god and Thor is his notable son, the strong […]
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Loki: The God Nobody Worshipped and Why That Makes Him the Most Interesting Figure in Norse Mythology
Across Scandinavia, the evidence for religious veneration of the Norse gods is embedded in the landscape. Place names containing the
Odin: The Allfather Who Sacrificed Everything for Knowledge He Could Not Use to Save Himself
Odin knows how he dies. He has known for a long time. The völva whose vision opens the Völuspá, the
The Kraken: What the Norse Tradition Actually Says About the Monster Beneath the Sea
In 1752, Erik Pontoppidan, the Bishop of Bergen, published what he modestly called the first attempt at a natural history